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Enduring Love, An: My Life With the Shah: A Memoir

Enduring Love, An: My Life With the Shah: A Memoir

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Forgive us our trespasses
Review: Jimmy Carter betrayed our long standing good relationship in Iran. Because of him, the 9th century death cult still clings to their religious perversion and threatens all who yearn to live in freedom. As I read this book, I found myself asking forgiveness for our terrible trespasses.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: What comes around goes around
Review: First off, i would like to say that anyone who keeps writing negative reviews has obviously not read the book. Keep your opinions to yourself until you have completely finished reading the book. Secondly, I would like to say the anger that I feel toward the Carter Administration for having allowed demonstrators to try to gas the Shah so that they could embarass him publicly. Furthermore, I am angry that the Carter administration gave demonstrators (illegally) the schedule of the king and queen on an official visit to America so that they may try to kill them. Thirdly, I am surprised at the backstabbing of President Carter as well as jealousy this classless president felt toward Shah. First he praised him in Iran, then he turned his back on him and wouldn't allow the Shah to come to America when he needed treatment for his cancer. I guess we all know now what kind of man Jimmy Carter was and still is. I am shocked that all the Iranians were not grateful that Iran became a developed, oil-rich country. Iranians all protested (they were paid by America, the Carter administration; they were given gas, sattelite phones, etc.). Iranians used live bodies and placed fake blood on them and pretended that the regime had killed these people. Iranian citizens burned cinemas and said the regime had done these acts. What a shame. What comes around goes around,as we all say here.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Beauty Parlor Magazine Article
Review: Farah had a few choices here. She could have written a Hollywood tabloid-style tell all of the shah's many marriages and infidelities. She could have thrown in accounts of self-aggrandizement and money squandering ways.

Farah could have done a great political angle. Prime Minister ousted in favor of flamboyant shah who gets ousted and an even worse government takes over. This would have required research, insight, and finesse.

But no. Farah goes for the queen-for-a-day melodrama and this book is just a beauty parlor magazine sob story. What a waste.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: How pathetic...
Review: Reading the comments with one or 2 stars on Farah's book reminds me once again how a few people unjustly can destroy an entire nation. This is typical Islamic revolution at its worst. You have one or 2 people who systematically "bad-mouth" and oppress the majority. And this is exactly what is happening in Iran.

To the one or 2 person(s) who using different IDs have written (and continue to write) multiple comments bad-mouthing the Shah and and his era, I say at least try to be original and use a different writing style to disguise yourselves better! You are the enemies of not only the Iranian nation but humanity at large. What a waste of life!

Somone wrote in one the comments the young generation in Iran is saying: 'Death to our parent who said death to the Shah'! How true this is... How true this is...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Greed and Opportunity
Review: Farah's book paints the picture of the shah as a family man, as if that excuses the brutality of his reign, although she conveniently leaves out that last bit. If she has Alzheimer's, than she has an excuse, otherwise, she is writing a false report.

I'm a Brit who lived in Iran and left when Iranians revoluted against the shah's despotic rule. The originally poor Pahlavi's owned many palaces, the most expensive foreign cars (even though Iran produced cars), owned private jets, and amassed wealth. Meanwhile the shah was ruthless to any criticism, little better than the current dictators.

Read "All the Shah's Men" to see how we and the Americans put him in power. It's fascinating that we bought the support of the shah's sister, Ashraf, for the Judas price of a mink coat and some cash.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: an enduring love: my life with the Shah
Review: This book was a wonderful treat. Most memoirs lack something to draw the reader in. I found this book very interesting, it was well written and had a great flow. I highly recommend this book to everyone. It is great to read, and a great gift to give. Buy it and enjoy!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Read it as a memoir of a time in history
Review: I have always been curious of this time era. Being born in the late 70's, all I recall are the demonstrations that were taking place in the streets of Tehran. This book gave me an overview of what happened from Queen Farahs eyes. I am sure just like everything is a 2 headed sword, their are others with a different view of what happened. I do respect her and feel bad for her and the country. It is unfortunate that the same people who were saying death to shah back then are all unemployed or have lost a family member to the long 8 yr war. History has proven that with departure of a bad government, NEVER has a better one come into place. I recommend this book to all who want to get a general understanding of that time period. Iranam Arezoost

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Prelude
Review: Farah's book seems to be a prelude to making a play to get some power back in Iran. Both she and her son are lobbying for the return of the monarchy for the "misguided" Iranians who ousted her husband in favor of a disasterous Islamic Republic. She says as much in this book, but fails to mention that ta democratically elected leader was ousted by the tyranical shah. Perhaps Iran isn't ready for a "constitutional monarchy" as evidenced by the fact they dumped theirs, not that they aren't ready for democracy. It seems the U.S. did very well with democracy before most of the population was educated.

Farah's web site calls her an empress even though the shah was born a commoner and was born in poverty. Her son's web site is just as bad, claiming an imperial seal. Farah's doesn't explain in her book that her family gained riches through the usual methods of tyrants.

Reza givees interviews to the Financial Times saying he'd "do his duty" and serve as monarch if required. Who is he kidding? Notice he hasn't gotten a responsible job and risen up the ranks, because he can't get anywhere on merit, which is what the USA is all about. Too bad he and his family have nearly completely squandered the wealth they looted from Iran.

This book is dishonest in its omissions.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: One-Sided Family History
Review: This book might be interesting if you were a member of the Pahlavi family and wanted to have a whitewashed version of history, but otherwise give it a miss. Farah writes her story with what seems like clear intent to make it sound as if she were Queen Noor with a husband that wasn't ousted for cause.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dull
Review: Farah's account of her life with the shah is dull despite showy pictures of the family when they had more of Iran's wealth at their disposal. Farah's book recounts an uninteresting story of her meeting, life with the shah in Iran, and his death by cancer, but it is not a new story and losing the power and some of the wealth he looted from Iran does't elicit much sympathy.

It seems Farah avoided the political realities. I toured Iran extensively during this period, and most of the progress Farah touts, was personal wealth building for the shah's family and loyalists. Most Iranians had no more than very basic education, if that, poor medical care, and poverty.

Farah seems mystified at why there was a revolution, and criticizes all of Iran's other governments, albeit the current regime is worse, they aren't much worse. The revolution was no mystery if Farah had the decency to be honest.

Farah omits that the shah was a commoner who rose from poverty to grab as much as he could. He wasn't about to bring anyone else up with him, except his family and close loyalists. The revolution was no mystery at all.


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